Free poker in Kuala Lumpur — online, with no stakes

Numbers appear here as soon as players from this place play a few games this week.

Updated: November 11 at 12:37 PM UTC

Free poker in Kuala Lumpur, online and with real people: Anubis City is a browser game with Texas Hold’em, 75-ball bingo, European roulette, blackjack and slots, set in a pixel-art Egyptian city. You play with debens, coins the game gives you. Nothing is for sale, nothing is staked in ringgit, and nothing can be won outside the game.

Search for “where to play poker in Malaysia” and you keep meeting the same answer: real-money poker is legal only at the country’s one licensed casino, and no online gambling is licensed at all. A game with nothing to buy and nothing to cash out is a different thing; the Malaysia page explains how we read the law, without pretending to be legal advice. For many Muslim players gambling is forbidden by faith whatever the stakes. Whether a free card game is acceptable is your call, and we won’t make it for you.

KL is a city of people from somewhere else — Sabah and Sarawak, Penang and Kelantan, and half the world besides — so friends are often far away. A private table reaches all of them: a saved character opens it in the Temple of Fortune and sends a link or a six-character code. Malaysian time is UTC+8, and 9 p.m. in KL is 2 p.m. in London in summer, 1 p.m. in winter. In the City of the Week race, KL scores the experience of its ten best players over seven days. Petaling Jaya, Shah Alam and even Setapak or Bukit Jalil appear in the city search as places of their own, so if you want your games to count for Kuala Lumpur, choose Kuala Lumpur itself.

Poker with players from Kuala Lumpur

No-Limit Texas Hold’em at tables for five and nine, three stake levels and private tables for friends. The chips are free debens.

Numbers appear here as soon as players from this place play a few games this week.

Bingo online

75-ball bingo in the Hall of Seshat: automatic halls where the game marks your cards, and manual halls for those who like to play by hand.

Numbers appear here as soon as players from this place play a few games this week.

Roulette and blackjack

European roulette with one zero and a shared wheel, and blackjack from a six-deck shoe where the dealer stands on soft 17.

Numbers appear here as soon as players from this place play a few games this week.

Top players of the week

The weekly ranking counts experience earned while a player had Kuala Lumpur as their home city.

The weekly top is shown when at least five players from here have chosen to show their place.

How to play for Kuala Lumpur

  1. Open the game and play as a guest or create an account.
  2. Open your profile and choose My city.
  3. Find Kuala Lumpur by name — from then on your games count for it.

Questions

Where can I play poker in Kuala Lumpur without money?

Online, in a game with no stakes. In Anubis City the chips are debens that can’t be bought, sold or cashed out, and the tables run in the browser around the clock.

Can I play in Malay?

Not in the menus, which come in English, Russian and Ukrainian. In the chat you can write Malay, Chinese, Tamil or anything else.

Can I meet friends from Penang or Johor at one table?

Yes — the whole game is one shared city. Add each other as friends and use “Go to friend”, or open a private poker table and share the code.

Place names: GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.

Play from here

Pick your city in the profile — your games will count for it in the weekly rankings.

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